Some people have described Hasso Plattner’s visionary speech at Sapphire earlier this month, “as the beginning of the end of the relational database as the mainstay of enterprise computing” (http://tinyurl.com/o8j3sz). In his keynote titled “The Power of Speed”, Plattner, SAP Chairman and co-founder, focused on the need for new software that enables business to move much faster and change the way work is done. He stated that companies today collect “unbelievable amounts of data,” (noting that the average SAP customer has seven to 10 years’ worth of data on disk) and that “how we digest that data is slow, and it’s getting slower because of the increased sizes of databases.”  Read More…

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I read with interest the other day that Teradata was expanding their go-to-market efforts with SAP. Their stated approach is “consolidation of all data on one database platform will support joint SAP-Teradata customers’ efforts to standardize and rationalize their IT investments while lowering their total cost of ownership”. What does this really mean for customers? It means watch out for the pitfalls of putting all your eggs in one basket when it comes to data warehousing. Read More…

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Interesting time last week at the RSA show in SF. Industry is definitely feeling the effects of the economy as overall attendance seemed down quite a bit. The show organizers were putting on a game face and saying registrations were down less than 10% but that doesn’t count the no shows who got their travel budgets cut - my guess is more like down 25%+. Having said that, the customers who were at the show were very serious - if they were going to travel they were intent on scoping out solutions. To me, two clear takeaways - First, “solutions” are the key. Customers and potential alliance partners were definitely looking for solutions that enabled simplified operations and cost reductions - the appetite for complex, custom implementations seems to be at an all time low. Second, security is becoming a mainstream data warehousing market. More data, more sources, more complex analysis. All this adds up to a trend toward massive, centralized security data warehouses - in the proverbial “cloud” and in the customer data center. Read More…

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“In its study of 43 companies that suffered a data breach last year, the Ponemon Institute found the total cost of coping with the consequences rose to $6.6 million per breach, up from $6.3 million in 2007 and $4.7 million in 2006. The cost per compromised record in 2008 rose 2.5% over the year before to $20 per record according to the study.”

http://www.networkworld.com/news/2009/020209-data-breach.html

Pretty chilling data isn’t it? Even more frightening is that the study goes on to say “88% of all the cases for 2008 were traced back to insider negligence”. Certainly brings back the old Pogo comic strip “we have met the enemy and it is us”. Read More…

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Welcome to my blog, I’m Jim Pflaging, President and CEO of SenSage. Why am I doing this?

I firmly believe the days of a single, enterprise data warehouse are dead. The status quo is under attack and one of the main “attacks” comes in the form of huge demands to retain and analyze event data. Today, economic and compliance requirements have led organizations to build data warehouses of hundreds of terabytes and even broken the once unthinkable petabyte limit for a single data warehouse. For many organizations, event data (things like security and database logs, bank transactions, telco call records, internet traffic detail, and manufacturing sensor data) is their fastest growing data and, often, their single largest data store. Read More…

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